#kyubei yagyu

[gintamayorozuya]

NEW ILLUSTRATION ♥ ♥

Ginko ♥ ♥

[starlightanya0wsblog]

♡~Making Gintoki Sakata flustered!~♡

This is how I imagine Y/n stealing a kiss from Gintoki when she wants to annoy him ;)

Hope you enjoy<3

(I love him<3)

*Y/n smiling softly at Gintoki*

Gintoki: *was trying to read Jump*

Stop staring at me like that you idiot *all flustered and red*

Y/n: Aww you're a little tsundere sometimes (^w^)

Gintoki: I'm not a tsundere! I'm just annoyed that you look at me with those eyes that makes my heart skip a beat.

Y/n: Then do something to stop me

Gintoki: *grabs her chin*

Maybe I should shut you up then.

Y/n: Maybe you should yeah

Gintoki: Tch...you're such a pain in the ass, you know?

*Presses his lips against hers*

Y/n: *smiles in the kiss*

Gintoki: *pulls away from the kiss*

That'll shut you up for a while...

*Confident*

Y/n: Mmm, I'm not sure, I don't think that was enough...

Gintoki: Not enough, huh? You're such a pain.

*Grabs her and pins her against the wall before kissing her again*

One thing is for sure, Gintoki definitely didn't finished Jump that day.

[hymnism]

"The most dangerous opponent is you!"

[unsteadyheroes]

kyuutae :)

[herseyboktan]

I was totally forgot Kyuubei is such a badass even though she is my first fav character in the show.

I wish she had more screen time and had important parts at serious arcs.

I mean she is so damn strong and fast sword user. Her fights are amazing and her fighting style is great. I love watching her when she gets serious and beat the shit out of enemy.

And she is really good written character. I think she has mixed personality. She has dumb-idiotic side (like zura, gin, kagura) and cool-skillfull-reasonable side (like takasugi, hijikata, nobume, oboro). This is literally something else.

Also, I love her appearance. Her outfit is one of the best her jacket, pants, eye patch etc (kinda smilar to sakamoto lol).

She deserved better.

[lacerta123]

This was a post I made on Reddit in response to someone saying Gintama was sexist because the women need rescuing every other arc. Which is nuts to me because it’s not even true.

Gintama has its issues, but it also has some pretty explicitly feminist themes in its writing. I love the fact that the male and female cast get equal attention during the serious arcs. It means the female cast is extremely well developed. Both Gintoki and Kagura got their own final arcs which is so cool (Shogun Assassination and Rakuyou respectively). Gintama regularly portrays its female cast as equal to its male cast in terms of dignity, importance, and often strength.

Also the character designs in Gintama are not overly sexualized, and the camera never leers at their bodies in uncomfortable ways. And Kagura, who is 14 years old, is never sexualized. She is always portrayed as a child, and even when she tries to look sexy, it’s always portrayed as humorous, like a kid playing with makeup.

The female cast of Gintama never gets underused. Even in arcs that arnt explicitly about the female cast like Yoshiwara in Flames and Courtesans of the Nation, they still play important roles and get considerable screentime (Sa-Chan in shogun assassination arc, Nobume in Farewell Shinsengumi arc (tho that’s 1/2 her arc)) And don’t forget Otose! She’s the beating heart and soul of Gintama and I will die on that hill.

Here’s a spoiler-y breakdown of the arcs, with a good deal of focus on refuting the idea that the Gintama girls are “damsels in distress”.

Harusame Arc - Kagura refuses to be a used as a hostage and kicks off the side of the ship, which feels like a refutal to the women as weak hostages that need protecting trope. Both her and Shinpachi were kidnapped, and in no way was she portrayed as a damsel in distress

Benizakura Arc - Matako is portrayed as a threat, and a capable member of the Kiheitai. Kagura goes off on her own and drives the plot forward by herself. She does get captured, but is portrayed as difficult to contain because of her strength, and her vulnerability isn’t exploited against the rest of the cast. She’s hardly a prop getting tossed around by the plot because of her femininity, like how Nami was in One Piece’s thriller bark. Tetsuko goes to the Yorozuya to ask for help, but it’s because she’s a non combatant and it makes sense to hire someone who knows how to fight. She meaningfully contributes by crafting Gintoki’s sword for that fight. She’s portrayed as the more skilled sibling in a traditionally male dominated craft. And the arc is an ideological battle between her and her brother which she wins.

Fuyo Arc - Fuyo could be considered a damsel in distress, because she’s in trouble and needs help. But I don’t think a female character needing help automatically turns them into a damsel in distress. She ends that arc with her own two hands. I’m a big fan of giving female characters the agency to finish their own stories. Her being in danger was not used to aggrandize the male cast, if Gintoki had finished the fight for her while she cried in the distance (arlong park) then I’d have a problem.

Yagyu Arc - Otae is a damsel in distress in this one, because the whole point is to rescue her from a bad situation. But a lot of respect is given to Otae’s agency. Gintoki says he’d respect her decision to marry whomever she wants, but seeing her cry makes him think it wasn’t really a decision made with her happiness in mind. Basically the arc is about convincing Otae to choose her own happiness over her sense of duty. We get full insight into Otae’s thought process and the arc only ends when she changes her mind. Kyubei says she loves Otae because of the fact that she has strength as a woman, something appealing to Kyubei who was raised to believe you can only have strength as a man. While fighting Kyubei, Gintoki and Shinpachi don’t hold back on account of her sex, and remark that whether you’re a man or a woman, you can still be an asshole. Kyubei remarked that Hijikata holding back was disrespectful to her efforts as a martial artist.

Mitsuba Arc - This arc actually is sexist though, but I read somewhere that Sorachi expressed some regret over not making Mitsuba more of a character.

Hasegawa Prosecution arc - This one was also bad, not because of how women are portrayed, but because of how sexual crimes are portrayed, which is a problem I have on a whole with Gintama. Sorachi writes his women strongly, but doesn’t give things like stalking, voyeurism, ect. a lot of narrative weight. They’re hardly endorsed, but they also arnt taken seriously.

Yoshiwara in Flames - Explicitly feminist. The story of a bunch of female sex workers rising up to violently overthrow their male oppressor, and reclaim their own identity as women. This is made very clear when Tsukuyo joins the fight vs Hosen and asks Gintoki where that Fire he was boasting about is and he says it just got here [referring to her and the Hyakka]. This line decentralizes Gintoki’s importance and makes the arc explicitly about the women of Yoshiwara overthrowing their oppressor rather than a story of Gintoki overthrowing Yoshiwara’s oppressor for them. Hosen and Kamui both express dehumanizing views of women that are opposed by the narrative. You might see Hinowa as a damsel in distress, but like Otae she has agency within her imprisonment (that’s kinda the point of her character) and she ends her own battles, narratively speaking. The violence against her (the reveal that she was hobbled) furthers her story rather than just existing so a male character can look good by getting outraged about it. You might find her comforting Hosen at the end to be a “forgive your abusers” type deal, but I didn’t. Since her narrative was the sun shines on everyone, and Hosen was trying to crush that sun and destroy her spirit, her shining for him at the end was her ultimate triumph over him. That he never broke her. She never forgave him though. The story is about women who’ve had womanhood defined for them through their usefulness for men standing up and redefining it on their terms. They define that through something they take pride in, motherhood. They declare every last woman in Yoshiwara to be Seita’s mother, and they are proud of that. Also in the ending, most of the women of Yoshiwara are still sex workers, just self employed and with the freedom to leave. That’s an explicitly pro-sex worker sentiment. Also Kagura, when Shinpachi says he’ll protect her, he ends up snapping her out of her rage, protecting her personhood rather than her physical body. That’s a subversion of a sexist trope.

This is as far as I’ve gotten in my rewatch, so I’ll give it a rest. But Courtesans of a Nation arc is also explicitly feminist in its messaging.

Actually I’m not done yet, I changed my mind. Even though Hinowa is almost certainly getting raped by Hosen, the anime doesn’t show any of that. Sexual violence against women isn’t sexualized or romanticized unlike in other shows (One Piece panning over Nami’s body as she’s being assaulted). Also, when Hinowa asks Seita to let her down and for him to go with Kagura and Shinpachi to open the sky hatch, she says they both have their own battles to fight. That Hinowa needs to fight. Hinowa is not powerless and weak just because she is a victim.

[rockleeamadeus]

All Gintama OPs & EDs: “Kasanaru Kage” [Overlapping Shadoes] - Hearts Grow

"大丈夫さらけだせばいい / あたしがいるよ その手は一つじゃない" "It will be okay, even if you're completely exposed / I am here -- your hand isn't alone."

[frostfires-blog]

☆GINTAMA THE FINAL☆

~The end~

[champoradhoe]

after months of watching (i only started watching this year), i finally finished gintama a few mins ago. mixed emotions. i cant organize my thoughts properly, i cant even bid goodbye to the characters as i grew fond of them. im sad that i finally finished it but im happy to live in the same timeline of gintama. THANK YOU SORACHI-SENSEI for making this masterpiece. this series made me feel a lot of things. i smiled, laughed, cried, and any other emotions they brought out of me. i honestly thanked my friend who have suggested to watch gintama (a lot of times) he certainly convinced me to watch this cuz i am missing out on a lot of things and i cant help but agree with him. ily gintama, the mangaka, the characters, the voice actors, every people behind this. brb, gonna rewatch the whole series <3

[gura-dun]

Gintama Chapter 1.

In this first chapter, Sorachi wrote about something that became such an important part of Gintama. Gintoki states he failed a lot of times to protect what really mattered. If you've already read the manga or watched the anime, you know what this is all about... Shouyou-sensei, Shouka Sonjuku, Takasugi, Katsura, Sakamoto... yet he still has not given up on life. He continues to endure the life he's been given, the decisions he decided to take that would change who he is and who he would become.

Also, Gintoki would find his first unbreakable "sword", Shinpachi. Shinpachi never understood the meaning of his father's words until he met Gintoki.

I believe nobody knew if Sorachi had already planned out what Gintama would become. Gintama's latter plot was being spinned like a spider's web...

[gintokigintokigintoki]

📷

[uri-9158]

Happy Birthday Kyuubei

[gint-edits]

Gintama Girls transparents

[lairofsentinel]

That non-binary punch...

[gilshaelos]

so the yagyu arc

[mytimeinmoonlight]

“Isn’t it wonderful?”

Gintama ep. 221 The Name Reveals The Person.